Guiyu

Examples of Guiyu in a sentence

• In the course of three intensive days in and around Guiyu's four villages, the small investigative team witnessed firsthand what passes for recycling of e-waste in Asia.2002, Jim Puckett, 5:35 from the start, in Exporting Harm: The High-Tech Trashing of Asia, spoken by Mary Ryan, Basel Action Network, →OCLC:
• On a recent morning in Guiyu, in Guangdong province, hundreds of men squatted in concrete-block sheds, sifting through computers and printers and breaking them into scrap with their bare hands.2003 February 24, Peter S. Goodman, “China Serves As Dump Site For Computers”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington...
• The residents of Guiyu, including children, make their living sorting, dismantling and burning computer parts or bathing them in nitric and hydrochloric acids to recover precious metals.2008 January 12, Jon Mooallem, “The risk-filled afterlife”, in The New York Times (International Business section), New York, N.Y.: The New...
• The roads in Guiyu are lined with bundles of plastic, wires, cables and other garbage.2013 May 30, Ivan Watson, “China: The electronic wastebasket of the world”, in CNN, archived from the original on 31 May 2013:

Origin of Guiyu

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 貴嶼 /贵屿 (Guìyǔ).

Questions about Guiyu

What does Guiyu mean?

Guiyu means a town in Chaoyang district, Shantou, Guangdong, China.

How do you use Guiyu in a sentence?

In the course of three intensive days in and around Guiyu's four villages, the small investigative team witnessed firsthand what passes for recycling of e-waste in Asia.

What part of speech is Guiyu?

Guiyu is a proper noun.

How do you pronounce Guiyu?

Guiyu is pronounced /ɡweɪˈjuː/.